Christmas Morning!!!

We had a great Christmas morning, only our second here in Holliston.  The kids made out!

Before the little people -


Stockings -

Onto the big gifts -

Prepping for Santa...

We've been busy this season getting ready for Christmas.

The kids made their lists and Luke wrote a special letter to our elf, Maxwell, to be sure Santa got his number one gift wish -

Picking out the tree -



Gingerbread house making.  Mom smartened up this year and we went somewhere to make them.  We left the mess and brought the house home.  Beautiful!  Now, to keep Marley off of it!

Wrapping our gifts -








Making the cut out cookies for Santa on Xmas eve -


Checking the Norad Santa tracker before bed to check his whereabouts.  He was already in Florida...better get to bed!




Putting out cookies and so excited for tomorrow morning to get here!!!

Happy 7th Birthday, Paige!!!

Happy birthday to our sweet and spunky little girl.  We love your zest for life, your silly sense of humor and your happy-go-lucky personality.  Where has the time gone?!?



Opening gifts from Mimi -

Birthday night.  We celebrated after school with an ice cream cake -

The kid party -

Today, Paige had her party with all her friends.  We had 13 little ladies over for a pajama party.  We decorated Christmas trees, colored Christmas pictures, had hot cocoa, snacks and cupcakes, and watched the Grinch.  We did it all in 2 hours!

My buddy and me -

I know that I have posted a lot of Ali & Marley pictures but I couldn't help but post these.  Too cute!  Ali loves him so much. He tolerates her.

Holliston Panthers -

Our hometown football team went to the high school super bowl at Gillette and won their division.  Jay took Luke and one of his little buddies from school.  They even made it on the big screen.

Thanksgiving!

Unfortunately, Ali wasn't well enough to make it to Thanksgiving so mom stayed home with her.  Looks like the others had fun at Mimi's this year for a Cape Cod Thanksgiving!

Happy 2nd Birthday Ali!!!

Ali turns two!

Our sweet little Ali is two whole years old today, hard to believe.  She just learned to say “ONE” when asked how old she is, now we have to re-train her. 

She is so fun and everyone’s favorite “go to” family member.  When the kids get home from school, the first thing they want to know is “Where is Ali?” She loves nothing more than playing with them in their rooms.  I’m pretty sure she thinks she is about their age.

Ali loves popsicles and lollypops. These are her two absolute favorite things.  She gets very upset when someone is eating one in front of her and she isn’t included. I sometimes send the kids to their rooms to have a lollypop if I don’t want her to have one, otherwise…WWIII

Ali also loves “school”. She goes to a little playgroup for a couple hours on Thursday.  Loves it.  Always asking to go to “school”.  She also loves her music class.  I don’t think I’ll have trouble getting her out of the house when the time comes for real school.

Ali also loves music.  She absolutely loves singing just about any nursery rhyme.  Her favories are “The wheels on the bus” and “Five little monkeys”.  Her favorite pop song by far is Whip It by Silento.  She can do the nae nae with the best of them. We have many many videos of her doing this dance.

We are trying to potty-train but so far that hasn’t gotten off the ground.  She says “no potty” when anyone tries to get her to sit on her little white potty.  We’ll keep trying.  

Ali is currently weighing in at 26.6lbs (66%) and 34.5 inches tall (65%).  

Poor Ali was a little sick for her birthday.  She has an ear infection and is on antibiotics but still not her happy little self.  We had a little party for her with the neighbor kids with pizza and cupcakes.